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Top 10 stories of the week: March 20th to March 26th 2017

In no particular order, here are MediaNama’s top 10 stories of the week ended 26th March 2017 MediaNama would like to thank its sponsors: Indian Express and E2E for their support. McDonald’s India app may have leaked personal info of 2.2M users McDelivery, McDonald’s India application, was allegedly leaking personal data – including name, email addresses, phone number, home address, home co-ordinates and social profile links – for as many as 2.2 million of its users, according to Fallible, a cyber security company. In the blog post, Fallible says that it had contacted McDonald’s on the 4th of February 2017, received an acknowledgement from a Senior IT Manager at the company on the 13th of February, but as of the 18th of March, McDonald’s had still not fixed the application, and at the time that Fallible disclosed the vulnerability online, they hadn’t received an update from the company. Read it here Vodafone and Idea to merge to form India’s largest telco: All the details The largest telecom operator in India will no longer be Bharti Airtel: The board of Idea Cellular has approved the merger with Vodafone, with Vodafone India Ltd and its wholly owned subsidiary Vodafone Mobile Services Limited, with the entire business of these two companies being vested with Idea Cellular; this will not include Vodafone’s investment in Indus Towers, its international network assets and IT platforms. Post merger, Vodafone will own 45.1%, the promoters of Idea will hold 26%, and the balance shares will be held by…

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